Full-size pickup trucks are about as American as it gets. If there's one thing we need, and one thing we know how to produce, it's a truck. That's why it's hard to justify buying an imported truck, and sales numbers clearly show that it's a feeling that permeates throughout the American truck-buying market. That's why Toyota pulled out all the stops for the 2014 Tundra refresh, and the result was a big, burly truck that - upon first glance, at least - looked like it could go head to head with the best from the Big Three.

It's no surprise that buyers often compare both new and used cars. For a given price point, the market for potential cars explodes once you start looking away from new cars alone. Yes, you might give up the warranty, but if you're looking for something unique, used cars provide a good value ... provided you pick the right one. Bang for Your Buck takes a look at five used cars you could get with the money you'd spend on the new car we've tested recently.

It's no surprise that buyers often compare both new and used cars. For a given price point, the market for potential cars explodes once you start looking away from new cars alone. Yes, you might give up the warranty, but if you're looking for something unique, used cars provide a good value ... provided you pick the right one. Bang for Your Buck takes a look at five used cars you could get with the money you'd spend on the new car we've tested recently.

It may seem odd for an automaker to be encouraging research into bicycles and how they can help ease traffic congestion, but that's what Ford was doing at the latest Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain recently. At the conference, Ford expanded its Ford Mobility program, which is "the company's plan

Nobody likes renting a car. It's one of those guaranteed hassles that always ends up taking longer and costing more than planned. As if having to wait in line wasn't bad enough, there's the inevitable dilemma of which car you'll settle for since the one you "reserved" (a word that has a paradoxical meaning at all rental counters for some reason) is unavailable. Well rental car companies may soon go the way of taxi cabs if car rental services like Silvercar catch on, which they certainly should.

This has been a busy year for Acura already. Honda's luxury brand has so far released two new vehicles - the 2016 ILX and the 2015 TLX - and it just announced another, the RDX crossover, at this year's Chicago Auto Show. Clearly, Acura's got plenty to do in 2015, but that doesn't mean it's going to ignore its existing stable of vehicles, like the full-size RLX. In fact, for 2016, the RLX is a better value than it's ever been.

The Lamborghini Huracan was unveiled in 2014, and since the outgoing Gallardo shared its platform with the first-generation Audi R8 (Lamborghini is part of Volkswagen AG, if you didn't know), most assumed that Audi would release a second-generation R8 shortly after the Huracan dropped. Well, it took a few months, but Audi is finally ready to pull back the veil on its all-new R8, and boy, does it look the business.

As we creep closer and closer to the Geneva Motor Show, more and more automakers are jumping the gun and dropping tons of information about their upcoming models. One of the more prominent early-releasers is McLaren, which has already given out plenty of details on its upcoming P1 GTR hypercar. Now, the brand is introducing something a bit more subdued, if you could call something with 666 horsepower subdued.